BB: USAC: USA South Athletic Conference

[Boysofsummer21]

Ok with the discussion around bullpens and who uses them here are some stats. It is a very small sampling for the young season but does point out a few things. If you look at Runs per game there are a couple pens that are not making friends with their starters. The observation of control issues for the Bishops is well proven. And there are a few teams that really need some of their young arms to step up. At first glance I thought CNU must not have played anyone yet but in looking they have played a top 5 ranked team and another team that received votes for the top 25 and used the same releiver/closer for all 3 games. Until we have a big sampling and they start playing common oppenents this is just a glimpse at where they are starting at and where they need to work.

Team

Games

IP/Game

Hit/Game

Runs/Game

IP

H

R

ER

BB

SO

ERA

Averett

6

2.1

2.5

1.7

14

15

10

7

0

8

4.50

CNU

3

3.2

2.0

0.3

11

6

1

1

2

9

0.82

Ferrum

5

3.1

2.8

2.0

16

14

10

7

9

21

3.94

Greensboro

6

2.2

2.3

1.7

17

14

10

10

12

11

5.29

Methodist

8

3.2

3.1

1.8

27.1

25

14

11

10

21

3.65

NCWC

9

3.2

3.7

2.8

34.2

33

25

16

21

31

4.21

Shenandoah

4

2.2

3.5

1.8

11.2

14

7

6

6

5

4.82

[LTBB1971]

NCWC beats UMPI 11-1 on a well pitched game by SR P Flynn.  Again not a very good opponenet so hard to gauge things against a quality opponent.  My favorite batters on that team continued to pound the ball in FR DH Ciuffetteli and 1B J. Rodriguez.  JR 2B Alexander's bat woke up and made a nice contribution with a 3 for 3 day and 2 RBI's.  UMPI even had a girl pitch for them for 2 innings...and had a 1-2-3 inning for her first inning.  Impressive!

[Boysofsummer21]

Het LTHSDad not sure I would bring up the 1-2-3 thing considering the ego factor!!! lol

[PNeal7]

CNU up big on VWC 18-5. It looks like 6 errors by VWC really cost them, with CNU also hitting the ball well as usual. Against an offense like CNU, they can score 18 without you make 1 error, much less 6. Connor Madden and Matt Shoemaker continue to lead the way, each having 3 hits, and Luke Saunders having 4 RBI's.

[D-BAT]

SU baseball (4-2) ... the guys 10-run a much improved EMU squad after 8 innings by the score of 14-4.

http://www.emu.edu/athletics/livestats/baseball/xlive.htm

[narch]

maine-presque island was just the remedy for a 3 game losing streak, as the monarchs get an 8-1 win - lots of guys played, and chris power hit his first collegiate hr - rmc comes to town on thursday

[narch]

UMPI even had a girl pitch for them for 2 innings...and had a 1-2-3 inning for her first inning.  Impressive!

i remember reading about her when i heard about the young lady who signed with montreat college (http://www.montreatcavaliers.com/article/704.php) - the two of them had a pretty well publicized match-up in high school (http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/columns/story?id=6185670)

edit: she (the umpi girl) pitched 2 scoreless innings vs. mu last night...talked to a player who said the ball was so slow that it was hard to adjust - fastball probably topped out at 70 mph - she threw strikes and kept the ball down, though - kinda shows the other end of the 90 mph conversation we had over the summer

it will be interesting to follow her progress - maybe if she throws one time through the lineup and follows a hard thrower she can be effective...certainly seems to be working so far as she has pitched 4.1 innings and given up just 1 er (2.20 era) and 5 hits

[narch]

mu improves to 6-0 all-time against rmc with a 9-2 win - frosh inman pitched well, giving up just 3 hits and 0 er over 5 innings and thigpen had 3 rbi while such went 2-3 with 2 doubles and 2 runs - younger stayed hot going 1-3 with an rbi to give him 11 on the season - the big frosh who started for rmc (bram) looked good early, but got into trouble in the 4th when mu scored 8 runs (3 earned) - mu improves to 7-3 on the season going into the first conference weekend of the season and coach austin now stands just 8 away from 1000

[Boysofsummer21]

mu improves to 6-0 all-time against rmc with a 9-2 win - frosh inman pitched well, giving up just 3 hits and 0 er over 5 innings and thigpen had 3 rbi while such went 2-3 with 2 doubles and 2 runs - younger stayed hot going 1-3 with an rbi to give him 11 on the season - the big frosh who started for rmc (bram) looked good early, but got into trouble in the 4th when mu scored 8 runs (3 earned) - mu improves to 7-3 on the season going into the first conference weekend of the season and coach austin now stands just 8 away from 1000

So how many SB's for Suck?? Should be closing in on that record!!

[D-BAT]

1-0   5-1 ... FC
0-0   4-0 ... CNU
0-0   7-2 ... AU
0-0   7-3 ... MU
0-0   4-2 ... SU
0-0   4-3 ... GC
0-1   5-5 ... NCW

[D-BAT]

SU (13) AU (1) ... 8inn
CNU (14) Blackburn, IL (4)
FC (6) NCW (5)

2-0   6-1 ... FC
1-0   5-2 ... SU
0-0   5-0 ... CNU
0-0   7-3 ... MU
0-0   4-3 ... GC
0-1   7-3 ... AU
0-2   5-6 ... NCW

[LTBB1971]

Tough weekend for NCWC as they got swept by Ferrum at home 5-1 and 6-5.  Friday's story was SR Wessel had 1 bad inning which is all it took combined with poor hitting and it was a recipe resulting in a loss.  Sunday was completely the opposite with hitting being better than usual and hitters clawing us back into the game but Pitching was terrible.  Pitchers allowed 12 hits and even worst 8 walks...we just couldn't find the correct guy on the mound.

[D-BAT]

SU (4) Averett (6)
http://www.sidearmstats.com/averett/baseball/scoreboard.aspx

[narch]

tough day for the monarchs, dropping two, 2 run games to gc...not what i had hoped for from the weekend

[D-BAT]

SU (4) AU (6)
CNU (2) Piedmont (3)
GB (6) MC (4)
GB (4) MC (2)

2-0   6-1 ... FC
2-0   6-3 ... GC
1-1   8-3 ... AU
1-1   5-3 ... SU
0-0   5-1 ... CNU
0-2   7-5 ... MU
0-2   5-6 ... NCW